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COLD WAR WINDS

LES MacDONALD

The chilling wind of the
fold-war has blown over the
Mountain Village of Cha-
Monix, a colder wind by far

q than. anything. which has
_ SWept down. the valley floor

even. from the Mont Blanc
Massif, which dominates the
Alpine scene there in the

French Alps,

_ Following U.S. refusal of
visas to the G.D.R. Hockey
€am, for the world champion-
ship play-offs. in Colorado
Springs, U.S.A., the same
MELO edict enact a by
‘France, has turned the eager-
ly awaited World Ski Cham-

“Pionships in Chamonix into

=i focal point in the cold war.
These” decisions have

brought a feeling of disgust
_ 8nd indignation from .sports-

“Men--and.women. around. the

towards those respon-
e, cae

baa Such Sentiments are echoed
é : Vancouver by leading mem"
a) of the Canadian. Amateur

oe ki “Asso . ° te s
& ie lation and the Ama-

ut. Hockey: Association) who
peed holding the play-
Sin Canada, with .no.hin-
Tance to anyone,

The Ski championships are
oS into: two sections,
eee and Nordic, the latter
ening of jumping and
ao ‘country events, and

Wnhill and slalom races.

1e Alpine events in Cha-
2 IX are those affected by
‘© NATO decision. The Nor-

Mon:

dic ‘sections are being held

the Tatra Mountains’ of
ae dat the town of Zako-
a 4g mmediately it was
‘ ae of the threat to the
na ni Noles Poland offer-
ott tea both events, with-
avail. Tictions, but to no

I 4
” the race for international

oo OFS, HBBOGDR: athletes “are

thane means -“also -rans.”.In
_~ Jumping, Helumut ‘Reck-
‘481 Of the GDR is tipped-as
y winner. In Alpine
Raa Heidi ‘Biebl, a Gold
Sa in the Olympic
eM €'s | Giant -Slalom at
ey, could have
ar ne field on snow at
re had .she been
ae to. compete.
ee ‘is it, one may ask,
news 80 infuriates the NATO
“vers about.an international
a5 et, or an international
CY play-off? Why, the

HIT SPORTS SCENE

them when confronted ‘by an
international peace meeting,
or an international butterfly
collectors get-together.

The barriers of the cold-war
are quickly. smashed down as
if they didn’t exist, and soon
Italians, Russians, Canadians
and Poles..are firm friends,
showing by their: example
just how simple it is to get
along.

> In Chamonix last’ year, it

in the Grand Prix races, just
such a feeling: of warmth be-
tween the respective ‘sports-
men.

In the hotels in the even-
ings, Rusian folksongs min-
gled with*“Swiss mountain
songs, and ‘Chamonix. waiters
would .display their know-
ledge of the Russian‘language

Jat the drop of a ski-pole. .

The Socialist countries have

| withdrawn as a block in pro-
test- against the despicable |

actions of the NATO countries
in the world sports champion-
ships..-

they: attempted :to*pull out of
the hockey championships in
‘Colorado Springs in protest.
Pressure by NATO has forced
them to remain in up to now.

Attempts. are..being..made
now to carry on as if nothing
had happened. As if the So-
cialist countries do. not even
exist, and as if there ean be
a world championship con-
test without them.

One is cynically .tempted
to reflect on the manner of
things ‘in the USA'“where
world championships are de-
cided without the courtesy
of checking on the rest of the
world.

‘However, the world is
growing, and the influence of

is shrinking.
The peace-loving sports-
minded people of the world
will have the last word, and
that word will be in favour
of wide open healthy com-
petition between sportsmen of
all lands. Sans the cold war.

‘Faster Growth
In 1960, ‘the national in-
come in the USSR. was almost
27 times as high as in 1913.
In the U.S., the national in-

‘come was 3.5 times as high

Sa) x :
me reason which infuriates}as in 1913.

was a pleasure for me to see

the U.S., and its NATO allies.

(DISARMAMENT -- THE CHALLENGE’

Disarmament — the Chal-
lenge of the Nineteen Sixties;
by James P. Warburg;
Doubleday, $4.50. Available
through Peoples Co-Op Book-
store. S:

James Warburg, a former
banker and one of Roose-
velt’s advisers during the
New Deal period, is the’ au-
thor of a most interesting and
timely book.

Warburg, in the introduc-
tion, ‘tells us he is primarily
interested ‘in survival in the
atomic age. He puts forward
“three imperatives of survival
in the atomic age.”

(1) “The discovery.-of a
modus vivendi: between ‘two
apparently irreconcilable: and
powerful systems of ‘ideologi-
cal belief and social organiza-
tion.” :

(2). The. abolition of war-as
a means.of settling..the con-
flict between two -intensely
competitive systems, as well
as all conflicts which*may in
the ‘future: arise between na-
tions’ or: groups of nations.

(8) The rapid elimination of
the’-major injustices: and ‘in-
equalities of opportunity
-which, so Jong as they exist,
will ‘impel “men ‘to ‘violence
in ‘spite of Jaw and law en-
forcement..

PEACEFUL COEXISTENCE

“Warburg’s: proposition
about: a “modus: vivendi” ‘is
another: way. of: putting for-
ward: the fundamental - pro-
position of peaceful ‘coexist-
ence.

“Warburg is critical of U.S.
policy because it is still -look-
ing: at “the “world “with - pre-
‘fatomic. glasses. “He “quotes
‘Eimstein “to illustrate his

point: “Everything has ‘chang-.

: ae paetk |-edrexcept our*mode of ‘think-
To’ the credit: of ‘Norway, | .- : : Seer
Sweden and the Netherlands, :

‘ing.” ' !
‘The UsS.,=says ‘Warburg,
has never ‘tested the sincerity
of >Soviet Premier “Khrush-

ichev’s statement, “Agree to}.

disarmament ‘and we ‘will
agree ‘to “whatever controls
you want.” :

‘FREE SOBEL!

a

MORTON SOBEL, victim of
the U.S. spy hoax’ sentenced
to 30 years is gaining. -world-
wide support for his release.

His wife Helen, said «last
week in ‘Britain that she will
ask Sir Winston Churchill to
help secure the release of her
husband. Lord Chorley, who
believes Sobel was unjustly
convicted of espionage, has
promiséd to approach the

He. believes the U.S. gov-
ernment under Eisenhower
did-not' want disarmament or
a ‘test ban. ‘No amount of
concessions on the part of the
Soviet Union with respect to
inspection: and control would
satisfy the U.S. department of
defense and the Atomic
Energy Commission.”

POLICY ERRORS

Warburg points to four
fallacious assumptions on
which U.S. global policy “is
based. Since the basis “is fal-
lacious, the policies are, in his
opinion, unrealistic, unwork-
able, and more, dangerous.

“The first is that the ’secur-
ity of the so-called free world
has been and is in danger
from aggressive, expansion-
ist communism.”

Warburg believes the
“greatest threat is not posed
by communism, but by a
world in revolution and the
ever-increasing likelihood of
atomic war.”

“He suggests the U.S. should
reverse its priorities. It
should be “pro-peace, anti-
War and last, anti-commun-

~~

‘ist.”

The ‘second: fallacy is “the
assumption that ‘the commun-
‘ist ‘challenge is essentially
military and can therefore be
‘met by military means.”

“He believes ‘the “challenge
is essentially. political.” Here
-again, he shows himself to be
a spokesman of U.S. imper-
dalism “ by characterizing the
‘struggle -as -one » between
“freedom “and tyranny.”

Warburg -says: “. . .=ghe
‘struggle »-will\be-determined
by the ultimate allegiance of
‘the presently “disadvantaged

people ‘who are’ striving to!
‘free themselves from age-old:

poverty, «malnutrition and
degradation.”
‘NOT BY MIGHT

The third .fallacy is “the

Former US banker author
f important ‘new book

assumption that others who
do not like communism share
the American view as to the
best means of meeting the
communist challenge and
that they see- communism,
rather than nuclear war, as
the most immediate threat to.
their security.”

In Warburg’s opinion most
of the friends and allies. of
the U.S. do not share that

country’s view. They ~arée
more afraid of nuclear war
than so-called ‘communist
expansion.”

BY ACCIDENT
The fourth fallacy: “In re-
cent years U.S. policy has
been primarily designed to
prevent aggression by one
hostile power that possesses
weapons and delivery systems
—the Soviet Union ... The
Soviet leadership fears nuc-
lear war and feels confident
of achieving its objectives
without .. . military conflict
. The -greatest . present
danger of nuclear war. arises

‘out of the-— ever-increasing

likelihood of war.by accid-
ent.” : :
Warburg insists that “what
is needed is not merely a
Suspension of nuclear tests
. . . but a further agreement
not to give or sell nuclear
weapons to nations that do
not already possess them.
He is very critical of U.S.
policy toward West Germany,
which he considers at the
heart of present world ten-
sion..In his ‘opinion, . U.S.
policy toward’ West Germany
flows out of the four fallacies
on which U‘S. foreign policy
is based. ‘
_ While we “do “hot agree
‘with many of his estimates
and conclusiens, we believe
‘that in the main, his book is
a valuable contribution to
‘the ‘cause of peace.
°® NORMAN FREED

Honour Dickens
atter 150 years

i ust 150 years ago on Feb-
J ruary 7a son was born to
an Admiralty clerk and his
wife in Chatham, England.
The son was christened Charl-
es John Huffam.Dickens.

If ever-a writer’s work may
be truly*said to have ‘‘mov-
ed” its readers, this could be
said of Dickens, ‘in whose’ no-

-vels you ‘will find an indel-

ible record of the diabolical
conditions under which early

British capitalism forced hu-
“man- beings to live.

Now that the current fash-
ion among some historians is
to whitewash the evils of this
period.it is above all interest-
ing to turn to “Oliver Twist,”
Dickens” second novel, which
he wrote after “Pickwick
Papers” drew him from ob-
security. :

There in the early chap-

U.S. Embassy on the question.ters we will find a descrip-

tion of the London poor which
seems to match line by line,
in an uncanny way, the des-
cription of the poor of Man-

chester which Frederick En- :
'gels wrote in» his “Condition

of the Working Class in Eng-
land.”

Dickens knew, of course,
all that his characters suf-

fered. He went ‘intoa™black- -
only “a ’
- youngster. He had to visit

ing factory when

his father in a debtor’s jail.

As a journalist he attenced
the Law courts and witness-
ed the “legal” cruelties and
absurdities -he pilloried in
“Twist,” “Pickwick” and
“Barnaby Rudge.”

In the Soviet Union last
week millions of Soviet read-

ers paid tribute to his mem-~

ory. Not only in Moscow but
towns throughout the Soviet
Union exhibitions and lec-

tures were organized.

February 16, 1962—PACIFIC TRIBUNE—Page 9

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